The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television by Claude J. Summers

Drawn from the fascinating online encyclopedia of queer arts and culture, - which the Advocate dubbed “the Encyclopedia Brittaniqueer” - this may be the only reference book in which RuPaul and Jean Cocteau jostle for space. How did Liberace’s costumes almost kill him? Which lesbian comedian spent her high school years as “the best white cheerleader in Detroit?” For these answers and more, fans can dip into The Queer Encyclopedia of Film, Theater, and Popular Culture. makes a heavy-handed Freudian equation between the vicious beatings Wojnarowicz endured at the hands of his father and his cruising for rough trade at truck stops and on the road.From Hollywood films to TV soap operas, from Vegas extravaganzas to Broadway theater to haute couture, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 200 entries and 200 photos that document the irrepressible impact of queer creative artists on popular culture. The New York Times, quoted in 2002, Robert Lang, Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Films, page 244:.In the past, an over-enthusiasm for butchness translated itself into a taste for rough trade. It usually meant one looked straight, one could pass. Butchncss is always relative the least swishy man in the room is the most butch. Gay male sexual preference has always favored a butch boyish beauty, and only in artistic or intellectual circles has beauty been allowed a certain feyness.

1988, Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America ( →ISBN), page 147:.Benjamin is a homosexual with a distinct taste for rough trade yet he lives in a kind of cozy, intimate codependency with Alice (Juliette Binoche). We note that Sami bears some resemblance to an earlier Téchiné character, Benjamin Sauvagnac (Mathieu Amalric) in Alice and Martin. 2010, Justin Vicari, Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema ( →ISBN):.The more outrageous Kids in the Hall had a penchant for drag, gender-bending, and pro-homo skits, featuring nellie bon vivant Buddy Cole the Sappho Sluggers (a lesbian softball team) Running Faggot-a new folk hero and Dracula, a gay aesthete with a taste for rough trade.

The show had a recurring “Queen's Counselors” sketch about two fey, gay Newfoundland lawyers. Their pointed satire took aim at regional differences, national assumptions, and gay codes. Summers, The Queer Encyclopedia of Film & Television, page 64:

2002, Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon, Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II ( →ISBN):Ĭonnors's biography corrects these fabulations and provides a frank portrait of Nichols's relationships and promiscuous sex life, including his penchant for rough trade and masochistic sex.

The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television by Claude J. Summers